From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Newton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: kill-region without modifying the kill ring Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 01:32:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8272bab2-aa15-479f-b838-0b60fb11c5bb@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443178512 22172 80.91.229.3 (25 Sep 2015 10:55:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 10:55:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 25 12:55:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfQek-0000oV-MW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:55:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58200 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZfQek-0004GZ-6E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 06:55:10 -0400 X-Received: by 10.50.78.227 with SMTP id e3mr1273818igx.12.1443169935116; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 01:32:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.22.7 with SMTP id z7mr10035ige.15.1443169935061; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 01:32:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!kq10no9709390igb.0!news-out.google.com!z4ni1516ign.0!nntp.google.com!kq10no9709384igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=163.5.55.13; posting-account=p_cn_woAAAAXPGEq7uizWAc60TPLf8y5 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.5.55.13 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 08:32:15 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:215044 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 06:54:48 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107330 Archived-At: is there a way or an idiom for killing a region without changing the kill ring. I often want to cut several different regions by highlighting them, but then insert a particular thing with C-Y. If I use C-W to kill the region C-Y will yank back the string I just killed rather than the one I want. It would be nice to have a version of C-W which does not effect the kill-ring.